Velda
Velda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 474th, in 1914.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920191 births
- Best rank
- #474in 1914
- Since 1895
- 7,559people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,559 girls have been named Velda in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 191 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 191 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Velda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 40 | |
| 1900s | 242 | |
| 1910s | 1,129 | |
| 1920s | 1,678 | |
| 1930s | 1,439 | |
| 1940s | 882 | |
| 1950s | 1,260 | |
| 1960s | 582 | |
| 1970s | 185 | |
| 1980s | 95 | |
| 1990s | 10 | |
| 2000s | 7 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Velda was the 502nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Velda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Geneviapeak 1924
- Bernadinepeak 1924
- Romainepeak 1928
- Germainepeak 1928
- Lorinepeak 1922
- Valdapeak 1957
- Eleasepeak 1923
- Loretapeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.